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By Nikki
(Cardiff, Wales, The United Kingdom)
·★★★★☆·
November 24, 2011

Goodreads librarians really need to work on Tales from the Perilous Realm. Some editions contain four stories, others five, and some also contain Tolkien's 'On Fairy-Stories'. I'm not sure they should all be combined.

Anyway, today this arrived -- since my first copy, most irritatingly, did not in... ...more

This review has been edited to fit right in line with Goodreads' reviewing principles. As such there are no:1. Hints to any potential censorship2. Off topic digressions3. Personal mentions of the author (just to be on the safe side)If you want the better review, it can be found at my Booklikes p...

My one and only Tolkien read of the year 2014 (that still makes me sad!), but the quality of these stories was worth a thousand! Within it were several treasure troves that I dearly, dearly loved. Roverandom, of course. Farmer Giles of Ham, and Smith of Wootten Major. Tom Bombadil's songs. . . an... ...more

I quite enjoyed this selection of Tolkien’s “fairy tales” and poems. Tolkien is one of my favorite authors, and I should have read this book years ago. I read it because it’s frequently referenced by Corey Olsen, the Tolkien Professor.

Roverandom is a children’s story about a dog who encounters ma... ...more

This book is worth getting just because of Alan Lee's art (it's all in back and white in the paperback edition, but the hardcover might have some of the inside pages in full color). You'll also probably enjoy at least some of short Tolkien's works.

There is a passage in one of the stories collected here that accurately sums up the content of the book itself. In "Leaf By Niggle," J.R.R. Tolkien describes a painting that the artist Niggle has been working on:

It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew,... ...more